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Public bathrooms STINK... but there's an easy solution!

We all know people can be disgusting pigs, but they're only PART of the problem. The real problem is that people have no way to clean up after themselves. The solution is as simple as giving bathroom patrons access to cleaning products.

I'm not suggesting that patrons are going to spend an hour cleaning a filthy bathroom, but the bottom line is that SOME of them will take the time to clean up after themselves when they make a mess, as long as they have the tools to do so. Without placing cleaning products in the bathroom, there's a zero percent chance they will do it.

Even if NOBODY cleaned up after themselves, EVERYONE will use those products to at least clean the toilet seat BEFORE sitting on it. That's a fact.... [More]

Don't you hate when a public bathroom doesn't give you a place to hang your coat?

It drives me crazy when I go into a public restroom and I don't see a hook anywhere in the stall. Where do they expect us to put our coats? Either the management never noticed it, because they keep their coats in their offices... or the more likely reason, they simply don't care about their customers.

Without a hook, we are forced to either try to hold our coat while we take care of business, or figure out a way to flop it over the door. It's not easy, especially in the winter, when people have heavier coats.

What bugs me most about this problem is that there's such a simple, and inexpensive solution. All they need to do is mount a simple hook somewhere in the stall.

Do you know WHY most public restrooms STINK?

The simple answer is that people are filthy slobs, the actual answer is actually pretty simple. Even somebody who's NOT a slob can make a mess once in a while, and when they do, they have no way to clean up after themselves.

Think about it. When you use your bathroom at home, and you have a bit of an accident, you can reach under your sink and clean it up within seconds, but when you do the same thing in a public restroom, the only thing you have is toilet paper, and sometimes that's not enough.

By contrast, on a recent visit to a Home Depot in Staten Island, I saw something truly inspirational in the restroom, a can of Lysol and a package of Clorox Sanitizing Wipes. The fact that they put a few simple cleaning products in the... [More]

It drives me crazy when a public restroom that has hand dryers instead of paper towels.

I know I've talked about this a couple of times, but I decided to bring up a few more reasons I think bathrooms should have paper towels instead of hand dryers. So, I'm listing 5 solid reasons here:

1. The first reason should be pretty obvious. I want DRY HANDS. I don't know about you, but I've used dryers more times than I can count, but I don't think I've ever been able to actually dry my hands with a blower. They simply don't work. Every time I use one, I leave the room with wet hands.

2. I like to wash my face whenever I'm in the bathroom, and one of the most frustrating things is to wash you face only to discover there are no paper towels to dry it off. It's hard enough trying... [More]

I don't care if dryers save energy in public bathrooms.

Whether you buy into all the hype about why dryers are better for the environment or not, the fact is many of us would rather use paper towels.

I don't want to hear about how paper towels kill trees. To me, that's nonsense, because every major paper towel manufacturer uses at least some recycled paper. Paper that is not from recycled sources is generally from paper mills that follow standards that plant multiple trees for every one they cut down. It's not only more responsible, but it's good business.

We can debate this and other reasons why dryers are "green", but there's still a lot of reasons why I hate them.

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